The Swiftsure Group recently shared some insight about the role of total asset lifecycle management in mitigating risks of the IoT. The focus was on data centers, where zombie servers devour resources, and healthcare facilities, home to the undud – fully functional but unaccounted-for equipment.

Most trolls and hackers aren’t looking to hijack equipment to broadcast radical views. They want to steal data.

While encryption, firewalls and remote access safeguards are crucial to security, data-containing devices can’t be protected if they can’t be located. That’s why a sound asset management system must track assets from acquisition through end of life and equipment destruction. An accurate, reliable, affordable solution uses sensor technology such as RFID to automatically identify and locate at-risk assets.